Links to articles about political history

The best political history story that has resonance with the Bush 43 administration is this:

When Hermann Goering was interviewed by Gustave Gilbert in his cell at the Nuremberg jail in 1946 (published in Nuremberg Diary), he made a profound statement about war that is still relevant sixty years later. Here is the relevant part of the interview:
Gilbert: We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
Goering: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Goering: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

I often check the internet for the latest news and general information. A number of web sites warrant a daily visit, like antiwar.com and counterpunch.org. Both of these sites offer archives of previous commentaries by their contributors.

The following links are to several notable pages that involve political history. These pages are in chronological order. Each author provides his/her own perspective and each article offers that insight. Which insight might seem more important to me is very subjective. Perhaps these articles will be of interest to the reader.

There is a separate page with links comparing the war in Iraq with Vietnam

There is a separate page with links regarding various protests and demonstrations.


History of US foreign interventions:

Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, interview by Amy Goodman (04/21/2006)

A Brief History of U.S. Interventions: 1945 to the Present by William Blum (June 1999)

Does US Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism? The Historical Record by Ivan Eland (12/17/1998)

American Foreign Policy by Noam Chomsky (03/19/1985)

List of United States military history events from Wikipedia

Mission Creep: US Military Presence Worldwide by Mother Jones


Sibel Edmonds and 9/11 related

9/11: Our Truth, and Theirs by Justin Raimondo (09/11/2009)

Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years - and are the U.S. and Britain covering it up to continue war on terror? by Sue Reid (09/11/2009)

The Facts Speak For Themselves by Jon Gold (11/08/2008)

Letting Sibel Edmonds Speak; An interview with Sibel Edmonds and Luke Ryland by Scott Horton (06/12/2008)

Covering Up the Coverage - The American Media's Complicit Failure to Investigate and Report on the Sibel Edmonds Case by Daniel Ellsberg (01/20/2008)

UK Sunday Times Scoops US Media Again, Confirms FBI Cover-Up of Documents in Sibel Edmonds Nuke Secrets Case by Brad Friedman (01/19/2008)

9/11, Six Years Later by David R. Henderson (09/10/2007)

World War II related

64 Years Too Late and Not a Moment Too Soon by Frida Berrigan and Tom Engelhardt (08/04/2009)

General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book by Tim Shipman (01/07/2009)

The Nazis: A Warning from History by Christine Smith (12/16/2008)

Our Suicide Bombers Thoughts on Western Jihad by John Feffer (08/06/2009)

Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years by Daniel Ellsberg (08/05/2009)

Their Vilest Hour by Colm Toibin (03/23/2008)

Truncating the Antecedents; How Americans Have Been Misled about World War II by Robert Higgs (03/18/2008)

The Man Who Bombed Hiroshima by Anthony Gregory (11/08/2007)

FDR, Pearl Harbor and the U.N. by John V. Denson (07/27/2007)

Stalag 9/11 by Chris Kelly (12/03/2006)

How the Germans interrogated Allied POW's (09/17/2006)

The Hiroshima Myth by John V. Denson (08/02/2006)

The German Anti-War Movement, 1943 by David Rosinger (05/10/2006)

Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian by George Reisman (11/11/2005)

Hiroshima Cover-up: Stripping the War Department's Timesman of His Pulitzer (08/05/2005)

What Is Bush Celebrating in Moscow? by Patrick J. Buchanan  (05/09/2005)

Whitewashing the Holocaust, Jasenovac and the Politics of Genocide by Nebojsa Malic (04/28/2005)

Sub wreck could reveal Japanese peace offer by Justin McCurry (04/16/2005)

The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor by John T. Flynn (12/07/2004)

FDR knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor by Alexander Cockburn (06/01/2001)

The White Rose: A Lesson in Dissent by Jacob G. Hornberger (1996)


General history:

Obama’s War Against Afghanistan and the History of Opium by Ridhwan Saleem (11/11/2009)

A Hundred Holocausts: An Insider’s Window Into U.S. Nuclear Policy by Daniel Ellsberg (09/10/2009)

Drugs and Social Progress Since the Greeks by Christy Rodgers (09/01/2009)

From My Lai to Lockerbie by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt (08/31/2009)

American Wars – Both Hot and Cold – Through Revisionist Eyes by Jeff Riggenbach (05/04/2009)

“World’s Oldest Democracy”: The Myth & The Reality by N.D. Jayaprakash (03/14/2009)

Why the Dark Secrets of the First Gulf War Are Still Haunting Us by Nora Eisenberg (02/27/2009)

Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years by Thom Hartmann (01/27/2009)

Provoking War by David Gordon (07/31/2008)

AP: U.S. Okayed Korean War Massacres (07/05/2008)

Garet Garrett: A Prophet in His Time and Ours by Jeffrey A. Tucker (07/04/2008)

The American Way of Spying By Spencer Ackerman (06/26/2008)

'Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent' by Ernest Freeberg reviewed by Peter Richardson (06/15/2008)

Questions of Loyalty By Matt Steinglass (04/03/2008)

Mr. Adams's Last Crusade by Doug Bandow (03/14/2008)

The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam by Jeremi Suri (02/25/2008)

When the Terrorists Were 'Our Guys' by Robert Parry (02/22/2008)

North American Union: Independent Canada, class leadership, and resistance to Empire by Charles Jeanes (12/16/2007)

The Last Days of the Incas reviewed by Doug Bandow (08/17/2007)

Writing Well Is the Best Revenge (Freedomnomics) by David R. Henderson (07/11/2007)

The myth of Entebbe and the history of Israeli false-flag operations by Justin Raimondo (07/09/2007)

The Death of American Empire by Patrick Foy (06/12/2007)

Delhi, 1857: a bloody warning to today's imperial occupiers by William Dalrymple (05/10/2007)

Maybe She’s Thinking of Herman Munster by Matt Barganier (05/08/2007)

Forever Iran by Renato Redentor Constantino (05/04/2007)

Gone With the Wind: An American Epic by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD (04/17/2007)

The Writing of Challenger Revealed by Richard C. Cook (02/15/2007)

The Undertaker's Tally (Part 1) by Roger Morris (02/13/2007) (part 2)

Dominion Over the World (VI): Global Interventionism -- A Disastrous Policy Supported by Indefensible Ideas by Arthur Silber (02/11/2007)

It Was Worse Than Taft Imagined by Paul Gottfried (01/07/2007)

Happy Birthday, Bill of Rights by Carol Watson (12/15/2006)

The Anti-Imperialist League and the Battle Against Empire by Thomas E. Woods (12/15/2006)

James Webb’s Fight Against Political Correctness by Thomas J. DiLorenzo (12/02/2006)

'Our War Against Canada': Alex Cox and the Long March of American Militarism by Chris Floyd (11/28/2006)

The Original October Surprise by Robert Parry (10/25/2006)

Bush Believes in the Bogeyman by Ann Berg (09/22/2006)

Bully Boy: The Neocons’ Favorite President by Thomas J. DiLorenzo (09/01/2006)

Roots of American liberty: The radical, revolutionary Declaration of Independence by Alan W. Bock (07/02/2006)

Iran-Contra All Over Again by Greg Grandin and Tom Engelhardt  (06/02/2006)

Libertarians, Socialists, and the Whiskey Rebellion by William Hogeland (05/08/2006

Movie Critics Aghast at Andy Garcia's The Lost City by Humberto Fontova (05/02/2006)

America’s Blinders by Howard Zinn (April 2006)

The Most Successful Fraud in American History by Gary North (03/27/2006)

Part 2: What Ever Happened to Congress? Tom Engelhardt interviews Chalmers Johnson (03/23/2006)

Part 1: Cold Warrior in a Strange Land Tom Engelhardt interviews Chalmers Johnson (03/22/2006)

Slobodan Milosevic, 1941-2006 by Nebojsa Malic (03/15/2006)

The My Lai Massacre Revisited by Gary G. Kohls (03/06/2006)

Lest We Forget by Paul Craig Roberts (02/25/2006)

As Long as We're Talking About the Constitution… Why not read it? by Scott Horton (02/17/2006)

Why We Fight, Go see the movie by Justin Raimondo (02/01/2006)

A President’s Mission To Destroy the Press by Thomas J. DiLorenzo (01/25/2006)

An Unhappy Anniversary by Eugene Jarecki (01/24/2006)

The Imperium's Quarter Century by Robert Parry (01/20/2006)

Back to 1214 by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt (01/07/2006)

The Great War for Civilization by Dan Raphael (12/14/2005)

'Gone Fishing,' How the President Got a Life by Tom Engelhardt (12/10/2005)

The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce by John V. Denson (12/01/2005)

Andrew Jackson's Mob by Charles H. Featherstone (11/18/2005)

The Presidency as Public Trust by Michael S. Rozeff (10/27/2005)

The War to End All Wars That Started Them All by Charley Reese (10/08/2005)

The Loss of an Empire by Tim Case (09/15/2005)

Native ingenuity by Charles C. Mann (09/04/2005)

The Smash of Civilizations by Chalmers Johnson and Tom Engelhardt (07/08/2005)

Shallow Thoughts on Deep Throat by Alan Bock (06/10/2005)

A Libertarian View of the Worst Catastrophe (WW I) by Jim Powell (06/08/2005)

The Forgotten Spirit of the Magna Carta by Andrew Young (06/07/2005)

An ethical blank cheque by Richard Drayton (05/10/2005)

Call Me Unaccountable: Woodrow Wilson and George Bush by Paul Craig Roberts (04/26/2005)

Waco as Metaphor, Mass murder and U.S. foreign policy by Justin Raimondo (04/20/2005)

More Than Fit to Print - Inside the Pentagon Papers - review by Anthony Lewis (04/07/2005)

In Seeking War, George W. Bush Held True to Form by Robert Higgs (03/10/2005)

Plus Ça Change . . . A Template for the U.S. War in Iraq by Robert Higgs (03/09/2005)

The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History by Chalmers Johnson (03/07/2005)

The American Militarist State: JLS 18.4 by Roderick T. Long (02/05/2005)

Bush and Washington: A Tale of Two Georges by Lee Shelton (01/22/2005)

Know Bush by the Company He Keeps by Les Dell (01/21/2005)

Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' by the Onion (amazing to read in retrospect) (01/17/2001)

Democracy: The God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (11/12/2001)

A Time to Break Silence; Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam Delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (04/04/1967)

The War Prayer by Mark Twain (around 1900)

Davy Crockett vs. Welfare (1884)

Against Woman Suffrage by Lysander Spooner (1877)


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